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crowley said:

Coincidentally, I was just thinking about possibly getting a hold of a virtualization app.  I seem to recall VMWare Fusion being more highly rated a little while ago, is that still the case?

Not my experience, but it probably depends on your purpose. With either product I would encourage you to perform a clean install of the version(s) of Windows you plan to use. Migrations have lots of leftover baggage that Windows generates over time. It is no different that reinstalling Windows on a PC after having used it for a year or so. Noticeably faster.

davgreg said:

Has anyone else seen the occasional call that displays no number and is titled Unknown on an iPhone?

I have seen that once or twice, that has to be some kind of nefarious thing.

Yes and I have also seen my iPhone caller ID showing my iPhone number as the one calling me. Same for home number.

I'm not confident there is anyway to stop it completely. They will figure out a way to get around it. 

Let's see they...

• Fumbled on the Internet's rise, but recovered with monopolistic moves.
• Tried to go up against the iPod and iPad and failed miserably with a crappy OS.
• Screwed their users with various incompatible music apps.
• Botched Windows Phone repeatably with crappy hardware, with some exceptions, and an ever moving mobile OS that was not backwards compatible.

The only thing that saved them is that Windows and office are the defecto selection in most businesses. There "eat your own dog food" business model failed them multiple times. Thankfully the new CEO got them back on track and opened everything up with significant improvements to their products. Ballmer worked to run them into the ground and was almost successful.

We'll never see opt-out by default in the US. We'll always be stuck with political calls even though no one wants them. iOS13 will fix most of the problem as if a number is not in the address book it won't ring. The bigger problem is spoofing caller ID. I've seen my home number spoofed as if I was calling it myself.

Most companies would kill to make $84 billion in a quarter and can only dream of that in a year. The companies that are ahead of Apple in terms of annual revenue are: Walmart, *State Grid, *Sinopec, *China National Petroleum, Royal Dutch Shell, Toyota, Volkswagen, BP, ExxonMobil, and Berkshire Hathaway. This puts Apple at #11, which is above Samsung at #12. Amazon shows up at #18. No sign of Netflix, Facebook, Google, Dell, Microsoft in the top 50.

*State-owned enterprises